Hand Dryers for Offices

Why choose hand dryers for your office?

• 95-98% cost savings vs paper towels
• Protecting future generations – environmentally friendly
• Saves sinks, urinals and toilets from being blocked
• Washrooms are cleaner
• More hygienic than paper towels

What cost savings will you see with a hand dryer?

Net margin is affected by operating cost, and so every avenue to lower this should be explored. While it’s hard to be exact, the average office in the UK has between 10-19 people. This equals roughly £50 per year on paper towels (depending on brand and supplier). Whereas, A Dryflow Slimforce will generate roughly 2,083 dries for £1 spent on electricity.

Environmental impact of paper towels

We all know how important protecting the world's resources and reducing our carbon footprints are. Large facilities like offices and shared spaces have a huge part to play. The felling of trees for paper towels creates a huge amount of soil degradation and also uses water, chemicals, energy and fuel that goes into growing, manufacturing and transporting paper towels. Hand dryers are a zero-waste solution that reduces carbon emissions by 90% per-dry. Paper towels cannot be recycled into paper towels and the majority are classed as contaminated waste, so they end up rotting in landfills producing methane.

Read more about paper towel usage here.

Cleaner, more hygienic office washrooms

Washrooms with inconsiderate staff can be a very unpleasant environments which in turn can impact the moral of the workforce. During the pandemic, the paper towel industry attempted to claim hand dryers were less hygienic, but the reality is that they are non-touch devices that use the air you (and paper towels) are already surrounded by. Many now have HEPA filters and ionisers to improve hygiene. Hand dryers are approved by governments throughout the world and leading authorities like WHO and CDC. Remember, the least hygienic thing to do is to have wet hands and hand dryers never run out!

What makes a good hand dryer in an office environment?

Offices place unique demands on hand dryers. Noise is one of the largest considerations – it is vital that the hand dryer does not distract or detract from the working environment. Next would probably be the aesthetics of the hand dryer – they can elevate the feel of the office, which in turn can lift moral, and help the branding perception of the workplace. Then, as mentioned previously, efficient hand drying is important. Damp hands are the least hygienic thing and illness can spread quickly in an office, so keeping staff healthy is vital.